Objection: God Meets Your Spiritual Needs, Not Your Physical Needs

How different “religious” teaching is from the Bible!  No one who spends a serious amount of time in the Word of God could ever make such a silly statement.  It amazes me how many people will believe something like this just because someone says it.

Consider Philippians 4:19, where Paul told a giving church that God would supply all their needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.  He was clearly talking about physical needs – money in particular.  He devoted much of 2 Corinthians 8 and 9 to God’s meeting of your financial needs.  In 3 John 2, we see that God wants us to prosper (physically) and to be in health (physically) even as our souls prosper.

Jesus said that God would meet your physical needs in Matthew 6:25-34.  There is no way to spiritualize food and clothing.

The Old Testament blessings for keeping the Law and the curses for not keeping the Law (see Deuteronomy 28:15-68 and Leviticus 26:14-39) are almost all physical in nature.  We should not spiritualize what God did not spiritualize.

The multitudes healed in Jesus’ ministry were taken care of physically!  Jesus always did what pleased God, so it pleases God to heal you and to meet your physical needs.  Jesus also met physical needs when He turned water into wine (John 2:1-11), multiplied bread and fishes (Matthew 14:17-21, Mark 6:41-44, Luke 9:16-17, John 6:5-13, Matthew 15:34-38, Mark 8:1-9), provided supernatural fish catches (Luke 5:4-7, John 21:5-6, stopped a storm (Mark 4:35-40, Luke 8:23-25), and told Peter to get money from a fish (Matthew 17:24-27).  In fact, because of His compassion, we see that Jesus went everywhere meeting people’s physical needs, most notably, needs for healing.  Since He has not changed and the will of God (which Jesus always did) has not changed, it is still the will of God to care for all of your physical needs.

It is religious slander of God’s character to say that God is only interested in your spiritual needs.  Aren’t you interested in the physical needs as well as the spiritual needs of your children?  Your heavenly Father is even more interested in your physical needs!